Right power supply?

I'd like to be able to watch my DVDs in my car from my laptop computer,'I was wondering what type of power supply can I buy to run my laptop out of my trucks power outlet? Does Best Buy or walmart sell such a cable??

It's not exactly a power supply, what you need is called an "inverter" and you are unlikely to find it at Wal-mart. Best buy may have them, but mostly they are sold by auto parts dealers and hardware stores. Home Hardware or Canadian Tyre both have them.

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before making any changes or commitments to buy new cd/dvdmake sure that the dvd burner is getting enough power test all leads that are attached to the dvd burner including electical extensions and make sure they have a secure connection or just replace them there might bebad/faulty oryour drivers may have been corrupted or you might have a virus run your antivrus programyou might have to physically unplug the leads for this cd/dvd burner then plug them back in oryou might have to uninstall then reinstall your DVD/CD or uninstall the driver then reinstall for this device control panel admistrive tools,computer management,device manager scroll down cd dvd rom drives right click you can you can update driver,roll back driver,orselect properties general troubleshoot, select driver click to reinstall drivers click update driver or uninstall then reinstall hope this helpsif this does not fix the problem it might be a registry problemClose all open programs

Click on Start, Run, and typeregedit and press EnterClick on the plus signs (+) next to the following folders

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

SYSTEM

CurrentControlSet

Control

Class

{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

This folder is the DVD/CD-ROM Drive Class Description in the registry. Look for any of the following names in the right hand column.

Upper Filters

Lower Filters

Upper Filters.bak

Lower Filters.bak

If any of the above keys shown in step 4 are listed, right-click on them and choose Delete

After deleting the keys, close the registry editorReboot your computerOpen My Computer and check to see if your CD or DVD drives have returned. You may also want to open Device Manager and verify that the yellow exclamation and error code on the CD or DVD drive is gone.

1. right click on an empty spot on your desktop-select properties. select the screen saver tab-using the drop down arrow by the screensaver box change the screensaver to "none", click apply.

2. while at the screensaver tab, click on the "power" button- click on the down arrow on the right side of the Power Schemes box and select "always On"- click APPLY and OK

This turns off your screensaver and power management for continuous play of dvds or extended reading time..
you will have to yurn off the monitor manually if you leave the computer running all night as it wont auto powersave now...
Regards

Yes. Ship your computer and power-supply to me, along with the original "System Restore" set of CD/DVDs that were shipped with the computer, and I will reinstall Windows, and ship it back to you. Really! :-)

Or, take the disks and the computer and power-supply to a local computer-store, and they'll reinstall Windows.

when u put the disc in does it automaticly open windows media player with the movie? if so after the dvd is in close media player ,go to "my computer" then go to the drive your disc is in and right click chose explore or open in new window on the video files u see right click one of them and choose "open with.." then click browse and navigate to your c:/drive program files and look for power dvd u will need to select the powerdvd.exe also make sure the box is ticked that says always use this program to open this kind of file ......make sure u have the rite codec's installed as well this link is for windows XP video codecs http://www.free-codecs.com/download/XP_Codec_Pack.htm this one is for windows vista http://www.free-codecs.com/download/vista_codec_package.htm and this 1 is for windows 7 http://shark007.net/win7codecs.html

you dont need to buy anything from radio shack, the inverter that you have will be just fine. i have used smaller and im sure cheaper inverters with no problem. i keep my company laptop constantly plugged in and charging all day everyday running service calls.